6 Awesome Editions of PIPPI LONGSTOCKING

She lives alone and has a monkey for a pet (way before Ross Gellar did that). She loves pancakes and thinks math is useless; she’s friends with pirates and can lift a horse over her head. What’s not to love?

This is actually the one I have; it was originally published in 1972 and just look at it. I kind of love it. (When I was a kid I totally had a stage where I tried to sleep with my head at the foot of the bed, in an effort to be more Pippi-ish.)